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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Running highlight-regexp in elisp function - not working
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:46:14 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioqphfc9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAtGUhUDhy5hoQ7=dU9Ls9z9Wg6ncD5xWdqyzBVPM+zXOW2sOw@mail.gmail.com> (Angus Comber's message of "Thu, 3 Apr 2014 13:17:31 +0100")

Angus Comber (2014-04-03 16:17 +0400) wrote:

> Hi
>
> I want to run this elisp code to highlight various sections of text in a
> particular type of log file.
>
> I tried:
>
> (defun abc-log ()
>   "abc log file highlighting"
>   (interactive)
>   (goto-char (point-min))
>   (highlight-regexp "message Event.*" hi-yellow)
> )
>
> But when I run I get error:
>
> Symbol's value as variable is void: hi-yellow
>
> And it doesn't highlight.
>
> I just want to be able to highlight-regexp on specific text and use
> hi-yellow.  What am I doing wrong?
>

The error says it all: you use `hi-yellow' as a variable, it should be:

(highlight-regexp "message Event.*" 'hi-yellow)



      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-04  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-03 12:17 Running highlight-regexp in elisp function - not working Angus Comber
2014-04-04  4:46 ` Alex Kost [this message]

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